A tyrannical boss or authority figure.
A person who dictates text (e.g. letters to a clerk).
A totalitarian leader of a country, nation, or government.
A magistrate without colleague in republican Ancient Rome, who held full executive authority for a term granted by the senate (legislature), typically to conduct a war.
A member of the peerage, above a baron but below a count or earl.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and counts.